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20 Sep 2017

As a full-time Trainer Coach since 2001, I got exposed to many companies. I realized that most business problems, be it human or cash flow, boil down to one factor: lack of sales and people issues

I discovered that what my clients can achieve is dependent on their state of mind, not the environment.

In August 2017, through my trainer friend Nancy Li, I know a Taiwanese training company called Soheaven of Xing Ling Hai International. They have 29 years track record in training hundreds of thousands of people in China, Taiwan, Malaysia etc

On September 8 to 10, I joined 80 people to attend Soheaven’s flagship 3-days program called Journey of Creation (Mandarin). Through this program, I examined my inner self and achieved breakthroughs in my business, family relations, and life.

I now want to take on the challenge of becoming Soheaven’s authorized trainer, with focus on the English market. I believe that there are lots of people in this world that need this Self-Discovery training program.

Do you want to explore further on this Soheaven’s Journey of Creation program?

17 Sep 2017

Many people, including myself 2 years ago, resisted using WeChat. Why use another messaging app when WhatsApp and Line are so good already? Well, there are 28 reasons why you must use WeChat:

You get access to people from China, and they only use WeChat and nothing else

You get to know people outside your usual circle, like people who are very familiar with Chinese ways of doing business

You get a brand new mini-website called Official Account for free

You don't need to download so many apps as what you need is already inside WeChat. This saves you so much time and space on your phone

You can make payments to vendors using WeChat Pay inside WeChat Wallet function

You can transfer and receive money from anyone using WeChat Wallet

You get a free QR code scanner inside WeChat

You can watch many videos for free inside WeChat's mini-program called Tencent Video

You know there are not one, but 8 ways to add friends on WeChat

You can always add strangers as your friends on WeChat, including strangers that are 1,000 km away from you

You save on data and battery life as Wechat is more efficient than WhatsApp

You won't be watching long videos in your newsfeed called Moments on WeChat as all videos are limited to 10 seconds on Moments

You still can send and receive videos of up to 5 minutes in WeChat messages

You know the value of give first then take in WeChat through this function of Red Packets

Your phone number is never revealed on WeChat

No one on this earth can add you as a friend without your acceptance. This is so unlike WhatsApp, where people can simply message you if they know your mobile number. In WeChat, no one knows your mobile number

WeChat has very strict censorship rules that help you keep out of stupid messages and sales calls

You know that WeChat is backed by one of the highest value companies in the world called Tencent Holdings Limited.

You can simply add many people to your contacts by asking them to scan your WeChat QR code. This is unheard of in FB, WhatsApp and FB Messenger

There is even a free fitness tracking app inside WeChat. Just follow this Official Account called "WeRun-WeChat"

You can read the latest news on WeChat

You can do a video conference with your group FOC on WeChat. Just select 'Voice Call' when you are inside a group chat

WeChat has a search function inside and you can search for not just news, but also messages and articles inside WeChat

With 1.1 billion users as of Sep 2018, WeChat is still relatively unknown outside China as only 10% of the 1 billion users are outside China. This makes WeChat a high growth app

WeChat started later than the rest, that's why its functions are better than WhatsApp and Line

You can easily translate 28 languages on WeChat and there is no excuse that you don't know how to use WeChat as you don't read Chinese, the predominant language in WeChat

WeChat users can change their known names anytime. This makes WeChat very useful in starting or joining Group chats

Everyone says that China is rising and China's Belt and Road Initiative is something we must get in or be left out. China only users WeChat and not Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Youtube, WhatsApp, Line and Facebook Messenger

13 Sep 2017

As a trainer of 18 years, I know in this economy people want to learn at free or very low cost. That's why I put up 5 of my best courses on Udemy, a worldwide on-line video learning platform at 84% discount.

You can preview and watch them at a very low cost of just S$15, with FREE Lifelong Access, FREE lifetime Coaching via Udemy Q and A and FREE extra materials from me upon request.

Please take a look at them, and I assure you that you will be pleasantly pleased with them. Thanks. Andy Ng

6 Sep 2017

Established in 1989, Spiritual Ocean International Group (心灵海国际教育集团), the parent company of SOHEAVEN (企业魂), is a Chinese education group that advocates persona land spiritual growth of each individual.

SOHEAVEN (企业魂) is a subsidiary set up in 2011 to cater to the motto of the company, and that is to build a loving and wealthy paradise on earth.

In the past 5 years,SOHEAVEN (企业魂) has held more than 800world class workshops dubbed ‘The Journey of Creation’, directly influencing more than 300,000 Chinese in their body, soul and spiritual growth spanning China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

The 21st century is the century of spiritual awakening.

The in depth study of our own body, soul and spirit is a must to truly understand ourselves and to take us away from the despair and heartache caused by mainly relationship, career and financial problems. Every problem we faced in these three major life categories are all because subconsciously, we are still living in slumber state. Hence, true awakening is the only answer to unlocking the key to the problems.

Only when you are truly awake, can your consciousness be enlightened,

Only when you are truly awake, can your energy stay afresh,

Only when you are truly awake, can you have surpassed power

Only when you are truly awake, can you see your future path clearly.

The journey of creation is one of the few workshops in the world that encompasses all aspect of life in their teachings.

A three days’ workshop would will let you come to realize how much the limitations you have set in your life with your own beliefs and emotional status can have an effect on your state of being, your actual relationship with your family, your career, your wealth, your health and also motivation in life. Through the workshop, you will win back your power and energy to mould and shape your life and the future as you want it to be.

A life that doesn’t grow will only wilt in the end.

Workshop's Contents:

1. State of Life Diagram

The hardest is to understand oneself, which state are we in?

Which state is our career in?Which state is our relationship in?Which state is our wealth in?How do we go from the state of problem and despair to state of enthusiasm and creation?

2. Life Phenomenon Diagram

Everything that happens in the physical world is a reflection projected by our inner self. You are the director and scriptwriter of your personal movie.How the movie will play out depends on you. By changing your script, you are able to change your outside world.

3. The Vortex of Life Diagram

Faced with problems in career and relationship, why do we often felt so helpless, powerless? What has swept away our will? Where is the answer?

4. Master Key

Faced with problems in relationship, career and wealth, how do we use a master key to unlock the solution to the problems?

5. Cosmic Force

Modern day entrepreneur, to rely on yourself to achieve and exceed your goal is very stressful and often unachievable. How to incorporate cosmic force to help you achieve and exceed the goal you set is a class you have to study in depth.

6. Pathway to Your Inner and Physical World

A true entrepreneur cultivates not only his physical world, but also improves his inner world’s study. How to have balanced studies that take care ofboth his inner self cultivation and also his physical world?

7. Give it All Dance

An entrepreneur needs to have developed both his masculine and feminine side to ensure that he is an all encompass leader.

8. Latend Belief Exploration Method

To know and understand that the problems do not lie with your career or your relationship but with your flawed belief. A simple tool to let you correct your flawed belief which is the root of your problems.

9. The Four Stages of Paradise on Earth

How to go from nothing to something, from something to full, from full to exceed. A step by step map, without detours, that let you go from the state of despair to state of creation.

10. Dualismintegration

Problems with business partners and family members often expended a lot of energy. A simple tool that helps you to integrate with your opposites and thus better understand them.

11. Maturity Quotient

Everybody knows our body needs to go to toilet, but how many of us know that we need to get rid of psychological waste as well to ensure our mind’s well-being? As a mature leader, we need to know how to expel these wastes without hurting people around us.

12. Learn thru the Basic

The height of our studies and knowledge influence the height of our career and relationship. How do we achieve greater heights by learning with depth, width and foresight?

13. Latent resistance exploration method

Often the reason we did not achieve what we have set up to do its due to latent resistance and fear. This simple tool will help us discover our latent fear and abolish it, enable us to reach our goal.

14. Dance of Life and Death

This dance let us confront our deepest fear, the fear of failure and death without actually undergoing the real thing. Once we have confronted and conquer this; there will be no more obstacles in our relationship, career and wealth.

15. Intimate Relationship

A lot of problems in our enterprise arose from problems in our intimate relationship. When there are conflicts in our personal relationship, it will take away our energy that could be invested in our career.

16. Reading of Reading Talent

Some entrepreneurs faced a lot of obstacles when managing their enterprise as they have to be involved in all aspects of the business or that they have lost their way. What is the meaning of your career in your life? How to read everyone's given talent so as to place all the team members in the correct position, thereby reducing your stress?

17. Life Career

In 5 years, 10 years’ time, how to incorporate health, interest and wealth into your career, this will help you to build your life career.

18. Building Team Spirit

What are the key elements in building team spirit? What are the blueprints to follow?

19. Integration of Wealth Belief

What is the meaning of wealth? How do we increase our perception of wealth through mental cultivation and techniques to acquire greater wealth?

20. Establishment and Inheritance of Life Mission

You have the competence to manage your career, but how do you find continuous enthusiasm and motivation from the early years during your entrepreneurship to bring your career to a new height?

1.We have expended too much energy and time to deal with problems in our relationship, career and wealth. We need a greater breakthrough!

2. Why do we always feel like we have no energy to breakthrough? Only when we find the source of the problem can achieve a state of enthusiasm and creation.

3. As a leader, you would need to be able to achieve breakthrough and pull yourself out from the vortex of problems and lead your staffs and family to true joy and happiness.

Workshop's Contents:

It is a workshop that has infused thousand years of wisdom found in eastern teachings with western scientific method. The contents have been refined by our head instructor through his 20 years of experience in giving talks and classes in this field.

Principles of workshop:

1.The Journey of Creation illustrates the relationship between belief and experience. Through various levels of tests via group discussions and individual exploration, this class is designed to help you to decide if the relationship between belief and experience is really there and how it has influenced your decision making.

2.Hands on practices in class to help you understand the blueprint of your life and your belief, and to deeply understand yourself. Only when you truly understand yourself, will you have more compassion and self-awareness.

3.To rid ourselves of flaws in our belief that is inherited from our family. In time, what we belief and what we know to be the truth is through ourown core understanding and not influenced by our upbringing and surrounding. Learnwhat impede our life from running smoothly all the time.

4.The workshop will let you discover what you really want in your life and let you understand there is no limit in your life, only a limit in your belief.

5.Learn to turn your deepest foes into your guardians. Prevent yourself from getting hurt by reducing your exposure to destructive belief. Easily replace pressure by observation. Learn to live in the present by having no judgment, no separation and no distortion of truth.

6.Anything that hinder your progress, and prevent you from being the source of your own creation will be banished as experienced instructors guide you to enlightenment, and let you be the architect of your own belief structure.

7.Lastly, in small group activities, help you change your physiological responses, interpersonal conflict, dependence, restrictions, continual existence of problems not resolved (situation not able to jumped out of), and (in the absence of disagreement and controversy) the elimination of others flawed beliefs.

【THE UNIQUENESS OF THIS WORKSHOP】

Systemic approach, with usage of tools, to treat your inner world (psychological needs).

Systemic learning with usage of tools in business management and business model.

This system helps you to achieve growth and wealth both internally and externally.

Interpreting depth spiritually your life’s connection to your career, wealth, intimate relationship, parent-child relationship, health, given talent, and your life’s vision and other 7 major living aspects, through high energy seminar, using 145 mental cultivation methods. Through practices and own experiences, you can easily learn 7 practical psychological tools and implement it in your daily life, and the results will also be better with frequent practice. The seminar utilizes many technological advanced methods in the workshop, for example music, lighting emotion expression, own experience activities, mentor-mentee relationship, dance and meditation. Through these series of exercises, you will be able to experience the change in your energy level, and achieve inner peace, relaxation, joy and happiness.

【Robert Yu (游明裕-多媒体教学)】

Head instructor and Creator of this workshop

•Co-founder of Spiritual Ocean International Group

•Co-founder of HEAVEN Gaia SPA Lifestyle Education System

•Co-founder of Musicfrom the Heart Splendor Spiritual Dance Restaurant Business

•Specialized in Reading of Business Trend, Leadership development, interpersonal relationship, Professional Marketing, evolution of consciousness, inner strength inspiration, consultation development, the training and development of speakers and trainers, leaving his mark in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan and many other countries.

•Classes he has founded and established includes: Corporate Soul, The Prophet Dancers, Miracle of Life, Life Transformation, The Dawn of Life, Leaders Force Consultation, Pioneer Trainer Training, Senju Wish Trainer Training, Happiness Password

•Invited to give talks in various major insurance companies, multinational companies, industries, associations, schools and government departments.

The Journey of Creation workshop is an interactive workshop. Participants will be divided into groups of 4, and three groups will be assisted by a supervisor, forming a large group of 12. The supervisor are seniors coming from China, HongKong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia and will assist in all activities.

5 Sep 2017

Now you can save on thousands of dollars to set up and maintain websites and mobile apps when you set up your very own mobile site called WeChat Official Account. Each business can set up 5 Official Accounts for free.

Why pay consultants thousands of dollars to set up Official Accounts for you when you can do it yourself for free?

Come to learn how to create your own Official Account at our 17th run 100% SkillsFuture funded course:

4 Sep 2017

If you're like most people, you probably installed WeChat in your phone but don't use it often. Unknown to many, WeChat is not just another messaging app. WeChat is a business tool that has helped me to get 47 out of my 96 people for my seminar on 18 August 2017. Currently 2 of my consulting clients are using WeChat to get new leads, convert leads into sales and get more repeat business. I welcome you to enroll for this hands-on course conducted in English: WHATSAPP & WECHAT MARKETING Date: 10 October 2017 Tuesday 9 am to 12.30 pm Fee: Special $59 (usual $298) Extra special $99 for 3 Venue: 7500A Beach Rd 02-346 Register via text to Andy at 82014347 or visit https://goo.gl/L1LrnJ

3 Sep 2017

The Prime Minister, in his speech on 27 August 2017, admired China for its advanced cashless system of using WeChat Wallet in everyday life. Unknown to many, you too can use WeChat Wallet in Singapore.

In this hands-on course, we will teach you things that others pay hundreds of dollars to learn. You will learn, among 9 topics, the 8 ways to add friends on WeChat, how to do Broadcast, how to use the 22 functions that WhatsApp does not have and do business on WeChat FOC.

Conducted fully in English, we also provide free one month coaching after the course.

Learning from China: three lessons for the ignorant West

Diego Gilardoni says after years of ignorance, the Western political and business elite need to understand that some Chinese cultural traits – such as longer-term, holistic thinking – can help open new frontiers and opportunities.:

There is only one thing more staggering than China’s mind-blowing economic metamorphosis in the past few decades. It is the still widespread ignorance about China among Western political and business elites. We live in a multipolar and complex world, in which China is becoming an indispensable player, but too many still think through a Western-centric and simplistic mental framework that is still rooted in the 20th century and therefore does not meet today’s challenges.

China’s increasing clout on the global stage is met with a combination of fascination, awe, concern and sometimes outright fear, and rare are those who make a serious effort to understand China and try to see the world through its cultural prism. This is a serious mistake, because understanding Chinese culture has become indispensable for anyone interested in making sense of a hyper-complex world where China plays an increasingly crucial role.

Learning about Chinese cultural values is not just paramount to understanding the reasons behind China’s behaviour; the West could actually learn a great deal from China, whose system of thinking is, at least to some extent, better prepared to tackle the challenges of our “age of complexity”

For example, while in the West a short-termist mentality prevails that is the root of both economic and political ills (from the financial crisis of 2008 to the transformation of democracies into inefficient “vetocracies”), Chinese culture is oriented to the longer term. Holding a long-term perspective allows you to have a clearer perspective on things, therefore reducing the risk of rushing into decisions without considering the wider context.

The long-term orientation of China is reinforced by the Daoist principle, according to which the only unchanging law of the universe is constant change. For the Chinese, things will always change and what is bad today could turn out to be good, just as much as a loss could turn out to be a gain in the future. This is why in China it’s always the context that matters.

All of this plays out in the global success of many Chinese companies that are able to integrate in a pragmatic way their short-term objectives into a long-term strategy. But maybe the best example of Chinese long-term orientation is the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s vision for a new Silk Road that, if successful, is set to reshape global trade in the coming decades. An economic and geostrategic project of such historical proportions could not have been devised by a Western government used to focusing more on the next elections than on the next generations.

A second aspect of China’s culture that differentiates it radically from the West is the way the Western mind focuses on things while the Chinese mind focuses on relations between things. In the Western tradition, we are used to thinking analytically: in order to make sense of the whole, we need first to analyse the parts separately. The Chinese way is completely different. The Chinese think holistically, meaning they don’t separate the parts from the whole, because the whole is not made of the combination of the parts but of the relations between them.

This difference in thinking patterns is reflected very clearly in the difference between Western and Chinese medicine. The latter treats a disease by regulating the whole body and not just a single part of it, because any problem in a specific part of the body is considered to be a local reflection of imbalance of the whole body.

Medicine aside, this approach can be very useful in trying to make sense of the complexity of our world, where all the global issues of our era (whether economic, social, cultural, military or natural) are interconnected and can’t therefore be analysed independently from each other without running the risk of missing an important part of the “big picture”.

Another central characteristic of Chinese culture is the synthetic integration of opposites and contradictions. In China, as the saying goes, if a statement is true, its opposite can also be true. This makes no sense to the binary logic of Western thought, based on the principle of non-contradiction, according to which if A is true and B is the opposite of A, then B must inevitably be false. It does not work this way for the Chinese, who are influenced by the Daoist principle of “yin and yang” that says that all things are inseparable from their opposites; both A and B, despite being opposites, can be true.

While Westerners see two (apparently) opposite concepts as irreconcilable, the Chinese see them both as part of something bigger and therefore can synthesise them into a new concept. The best example of this mental pattern comes from the Chinese language itself, where the word for “crisis” is the combination of the words “danger” and “opportunity”. By being comfortable with ambiguity, the Chinese can therefore merge two opposite perspectives and create a new one.

We can see this cultural attribute playing out in some political concepts developed in the past few decades, such as “one country, two systems” and the “socialist market economy”. For many Westerners, these concepts would be considered nothing less than illogical oxymorons, but for the Chinese they simply reflect a holistic and dialectic integration of opposites that open the way to a new and original perspective on things; a perspective that is not based on an abstract and dogmatic analysis of reality but on pragmatic adaptation to a specific context. The Chinese don’t think in terms of “or” but rather “and”: not “state or market” but “state and market”, not “competition or cooperation” but “competition and cooperation”.

In the West, most politicians still think dogmatically in terms of irreconcilable opposites; they are incapable of developing a new perspective on reality and this is why they are losing ground.

In the past 15 years, the world has changed dramatically and the changes to come (as a result of shifts in the geo-economic balance and the advent of disruptive technologies) will require the right mental framework from global business and political leaders. Unfortunately, in the West, many political and business leaders are facing the challenges of the future with an intellectual toolbox of the past.

To be a global leader today, one needs to develop a global mindset. Developing a global mindset means combining different perspectives and, through a creative synthesis, integrating them into a new one. A new perspective can help us untangle the complexity of our world and find new solutions to new problems. Western leaders need to understand that learning from Chinese culture can only be beneficial and open up new frontiers and opportunities.

Confucius said that real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. It is time for Western political and business leaders to acknowledge their own ignorance and do something about it.

Diego Gilardoni is the author of Decoding China and an international consultant and speaker specialised in global business